WOODRAT MOUNTAIN

Clearwater National Forest33N-5E-24

1981: "Although located on State land, all improvements at Woodrat were built by and manned by the Forest Service. It is not known when the point was first used as a lookout but in 1925, before there was a road to Woodrat, Ranger Jack Parsell of the Middlefork District, had a one room 14'x16' log cabin built there for lookout quarters at a cost of $309.00. The cabin was located about 100 feet North of the mountain top. At about the same time a 40-foot high tower with observatory was built on the top of the ridge. Woodrat went to the Nezperce Forestry when the Selway was split up in 1934-35. The log cabin and tower were manned seasonally until 1946 when the Nezperce Forest replaced them with a L-4 cabin on a 41-foot high, treated timber tower at a cost of $3312.00. Woodrat came to the Lochsa District by boundary adjustment in 1956 and was still in use in 1966." (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilties of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)